Podcasts created by the UGA Libraries for the general public. http://www.libs.uga.edu/podcast en-us Copyright 2009 Tue, 05 May 2009 11:30:00 EST Tue, 05 May 2009 11:30:00 EST http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss clopez@uga.edu (Christian Lopez) http://podcasting.gcsu.edu/4DCGI/Podcasting/UGA/Episodes/26756/1708.mp3 http://podcasting.gcsu.edu/4DCGI/Podcasting/UGA/Episodes/26756/1708.mp3 Environmental History: A Study of Landscape and Legacy - Lecture by David Foster at the UGA Chapel on April 23, 2009. Foster is Director of the Harvard Forest and an ecologist who is interested in the interpretation and conservation of landscapes shaped by natural and cultural processes. Foster is co-author of Wildlands and Woodlands: a Vision for the Forests of Massachusetts, a new conservation plan designed to increase greatly the state’s protected land, ensure its viability and sustainability for generations to come through private, public and non-profit stewardship, and develop comprehensive approaches to forest management. Podcasts Mon, 08 Jun 2009 10:30:00 EST http://podcasting.gcsu.edu/4DCGI/Podcasting/UGA/Episodes/29860/10230.mp3 http://podcasting.gcsu.edu/4DCGI/Podcasting/UGA/Episodes/29860/10230.mp3 In March 2009, the Walter J. Brown Media Archives and Peabody Awards Collection at the University of Georgia Libraries hosted Ambassador Andrew Young as he presented the premiere of his new feature-length civil rights documentary, How We Got Over. Young, a former congressman, United Nations Ambassador and mayor of Atlanta, was a leader in the American Civil Rights Movement and one of Dr. Martin Luther King’s closest advisors and confidants. How We Got Over uses unique archival footage from the WSB and WALB Newsfilm Collections held by the UGA Libraries to re-frame the story of the civil rights struggle. This podcast is a recording of the Question and Answer session with Ambassador Young following the premiere of How We Got Over. Podcasts Thu, 05 Mar 2009 14:10:00 EST http://podcasting.gcsu.edu/4DCGI/Podcasting/UGA/Episodes/24889/17587.mp3 http://podcasting.gcsu.edu/4DCGI/Podcasting/UGA/Episodes/24889/17587.mp3 Using selections from audiotapes in the Harry Crews collection, librarian Skip Hulett introduces listeners to the wealth of literary material contained in this famous Georgia writer's personal archive at the University of Georgia's Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library. Hear excerpts from tapes of Crews teaching a creative writing seminar at the University of Florida, interviewing tough-guy actors Charles Bronson and Robert Blake, and describing how he approaches his own writing and what kind of an impression growing up a poor tenant farmer's son in Georgia made upon his novels.. Skip Hulett is the Georgiana Collection librarian in the Hargrett Library, which houses tens of thousands of rare book and nearly four thousand separate manuscript collections containing historical papers and letters, literary manuscripts, personal memorabilia, and business records. Music: "Forbidden Fields," from Fields of Endless Grass by Gurdonark, Creative Commons license 2.5. Podcasts Thu, 05 Mar 2009 14:10:00 EST http://podcasting.gcsu.edu/4DCGI/Podcasting/UGA/Episodes/14667/16492.mp3 http://podcasting.gcsu.edu/4DCGI/Podcasting/UGA/Episodes/14667/16492.mp3 Tommy Jordan, Dr. Ervan Garrison and Wormsloe Fellow Jessica Cook of UGA's Department of Anthropology discuss geoarcheology, the interdisciplinary nature of the work at Wormsloe, and the Wormsloe Fellowship. Podcasts Wed, 10 Dec 2008 12:35:00 EST http://podcasting.gcsu.edu/4DCGI/Podcasting/UGA/Episodes/9777/28816.mp3 http://podcasting.gcsu.edu/4DCGI/Podcasting/UGA/Episodes/9777/28816.mp3 Tommy Jordan, Dr. Paul Sutter and Wormsloe Fellow Drew Swanson of UGA's Department of History discuss environmental history and Drew's experience working with materials from the DeRenne Library in the Hargrett Rare Book collection. Podcasts Wed, 10 Dec 2008 12:35:00 EST http://podcasting.gcsu.edu/4DCGI/Podcasting/UGA/Episodes/30662/28215.mp3 http://podcasting.gcsu.edu/4DCGI/Podcasting/UGA/Episodes/30662/28215.mp3 Wormsloe's Sarah Ross and CRMS's Tommy Jordan talk Wormsloe's history, its importance to scholars, and the mapping of the site. Podcasts Wed, 10 Dec 2008 12:35:00 EST http://podcasting.gcsu.edu/4DCGI/Podcasting/UGA/Episodes/12277/3141.mp3 http://podcasting.gcsu.edu/4DCGI/Podcasting/UGA/Episodes/12277/3141.mp3 Dr. Michael J. Conroy discusses his work at UGA and the benefits of using modeling in wildlife conservation. Podcasts Wed, 10 Dec 2008 12:35:00 EST http://podcasting.gcsu.edu/4DCGI/Podcasting/UGA/Episodes/7666/9658.mp3 http://podcasting.gcsu.edu/4DCGI/Podcasting/UGA/Episodes/7666/9658.mp3 UGA faculty Kaye Sweetser and Janet Frick, and David Noah from the Center for Teaching and Learning discuss Web 2.0 Social Media at the Student Learning Center. Podcasts Wed, 10 Dec 2008 12:35:00 EST http://podcasting.gcsu.edu/4DCGI/Podcasting/UGA/Episodes/19871/4220.m4v http://podcasting.gcsu.edu/4DCGI/Podcasting/UGA/Episodes/19871/4220.m4v Reflections on Georgia Politics, a Russell Library oral history program, features conversations with prominent Georgians. Historian and veteran political consultant Bob Short brings 50 years of experience in Georgia politics to the series, engaging public servants, grass roots activists, and "back room boys" in illuminating and lively discourse. With over 50 programs recorded and counting, a new interview is added on average every ten days. This video is a sampler reel of some of the interviews thus far completed. Podcasts Thu, 20 Nov 2008 12:35:00 EST http://podcasting.gcsu.edu/4DCGI/Podcasting/UGA/Episodes/10340/31647.mp3 http://podcasting.gcsu.edu/4DCGI/Podcasting/UGA/Episodes/10340/31647.mp3 Carla Buss, Head of the CML at the University of Georgia, gives a brief overview of the materials and services available to UGA faculty, staff and students. Podcasts Mon, 15 Oct 2007 12:35:00 EST http://podcasting.gcsu.edu/4DCGI/Podcasting/UGA/Episodes/20730/7019.mp3 http://podcasting.gcsu.edu/4DCGI/Podcasting/UGA/Episodes/20730/7019.mp3 Concealed nobility, Irish rebellion, armed defense of the campus and a stormy academic conflict that derailed the University - it's the story of William Green, one of the University’s early professors, told by Steven Brown, University Archivist. Green's portrait was recently donated to the Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library. Brown is head of the University of Georgia Archives and Records program in the Hargrett Library, where ancient records hold many more thrilling tales. See some of them in the Archives online exhibit hall. Podcasts Mon, 15 Oct 2007 12:27:00 EST http://podcasting.gcsu.edu/4DCGI/Podcasting/UGA/Episodes/15253/26858.mp3 http://podcasting.gcsu.edu/4DCGI/Podcasting/UGA/Episodes/15253/26858.mp3 Concealed nobility, Irish rebellion, armed defense of the campus and a stormy academic conflict that derailed the University - it's the story of William Green, one of the University’s early professors, told by Steven Brown, University Archivist. Green's portrait was recently donated to the Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library. Brown is head of the University of Georgia Archives and Records program in the Hargrett Library, where ancient records hold many more thrilling tales. See some of them in the Archives online exhibit hall. Podcasts Mon, 15 Oct 2007 12:27:00 EST http://podcasting.gcsu.edu/4DCGI/Podcasting/UGA/Episodes/28102/8160.mp3 http://podcasting.gcsu.edu/4DCGI/Podcasting/UGA/Episodes/28102/8160.mp3 David M. Barrett provides a provocative account of relations between American spymasters and Capitol Hill in his recently published book, The CIA and Congress: The Untold Story from Truman to Kennedy. Join Barrett and a panel of UGA experts on modern intelligence gatheringDr. Loch K. Johnson, co-author of Who's Watching The Spies?; Powell Moore (ABJ), senior congressional and presidential aide and Donald Rumsfeld's first Asst. Secretary of Defense for Legislative Affairs; and Dr. Michael C. Speckhard, CIA officer-in-residence, University of Georgiato discuss the structure of intelligence and questions of its oversight in light of current events. Podcasts Wed, 15 Mar 2006 14:38:00 EST http://podcasting.gcsu.edu/4DCGI/Podcasting/UGA/Episodes/20611/1556.mov http://podcasting.gcsu.edu/4DCGI/Podcasting/UGA/Episodes/20611/1556.mov A public oral history program organized by the University of Georgia's Richard B. Russell Library for Political Research and Studies. 1953 editors of the University of Georgia newspaper, The Red and Black (Gene Britton, Bill Shipp, Walter Lundy, Priscilla Arnold) were interviewed by Dr. Maurice Daniels, Dr. Kent Middleton and moderator Harry Montevideo, publisher of The Red and Black. This public oral history program was the first in a new series from the Richard B. Russell Library for Political Research and Studies in partnership with the Foot Soldier Project for Civil Rights Studies. Podcasts Wed, 15 Mar 2006 14:38:00 EST